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Black Japandi Chair with Woven Seat in solid oak
Black Japandi Chair with Woven Seat
Black Japandi Chair with Woven Seat
Black Japandi Chair with Woven Seat
Black Japandi Chair with Woven Seat
Black Japandi Chair with Woven Seat
Black Japandi Chair with Woven Seat
Black Japandi Chair with Woven Seat
Black Japandi Chair with Woven Seat
Black Japandi Chair with Woven Seat

Black Japandi Chair with Woven Seat

£269.00

Add graphic calm to your table with this black Japandi chair with a woven seat, its solid oak frame darkened to a deep and even black.

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Discover How the Seat Is Braided by Hand

Each seat is braided by hand from paper rope, and the maker works in a repeating rhythm around the frame, pulling every pass to the same tension before moving on. Get that tension wrong and the seat either sags within a season or feels like a board; get it right, as here, and the surface gives a few millimetres under weight and springs back when you stand. A skilled weaver takes a considerable part of a working day over a single seat, which is why hand-braided seating is priced as craft rather than as a component.

Living with a woven paper rope seat is straightforward once you understand what it dislikes. It dislikes standing water, sharp buckles and hooked jewellery, and it dislikes being dragged across the weave. It is entirely happy with dry warmth, regular use and the occasional pass of a soft brush or a hoover on low suction. Over time the pale cord dulls slightly and takes on the shape of the people who use it, making a chair that records its own history rather than resisting it.

Embrace Wood That Refuses to Repeat Itself

The frame is solid oak wood with a black finish, and the finish is thin enough that the timber's structure still shows through when light crosses it at an angle. You get the flat, absorbing colour of black with the ridged texture of oak underneath, which is a more interesting surface than paint on a closed-grain wood. Because the piece is made of natural materials, each chair has its own tones and grain pattern; buy several and expect a family rather than a set of clones.

The oak is FSC-certified, from sustainable forests with controlled logging, so felling rates and replanting are audited rather than left to the supplier's word. The chair is available in other finishes if black is too emphatic for your room, since the same frame in a lighter tone recedes considerably. In practice this one earns its keep against a pale plaster wall, at a plain timber table, or as a single seat in a bedroom where its outline can be seen properly.

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